#154: Is Sugar F*cking Up Your Body?

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Jay Ferruggia

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🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Most of us know sugar is bad.

But just how bad is it, really? What are the negative effects we should we worried about?

The unfortunate reality is that sugar contributes to chronic health problems like Alzheimer’s, fatty liver disease and cancer.

It can wreak havoc on gut health and your immune system.

For more on this, I enlisted the help of sugar expert and the man who wrote the book on it, Dan DeFigio.

In this episode we discuss:

Sugar’s overall impact on your health
The 4 types of sugar addicts
Sugar and depression
How to avoid gut health issues
Hidden sources of sugar
The problem with agave and artificial sweeteners
Are fruits and grains as bad as sugar?
The importance of mindful eating
How eating more can help reduce sugar cravings

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Renegade
0:17.0	radio podcast I am J Farugia. My guest today is Dan Defigio and we are going to talk about sugar.
0:25.0	Most people know sugar is bad, but today we're going to figure out exactly how bad it really is.
0:31.0	The unfortunate reality, my friends friends is that sugar contributes to a lot
0:35.2	of chronic health problems like Alzheimer's fatty liver disease and cancer. So we're going to
0:39.6	dig deep on all that today with Dan and this episode is brought to you by the Renegades Strength
0:44.9	Club. Once you clean up your diet which we're going to address a little bit more today in depth,
0:49.4	you want to get those workouts in kids, get those solid workouts in Renegade Strength Club is where
0:55.1	you can get all your workouts exercise videos Q and a chance to win great prizes
1:00.3	so go to Renegade Strength Club dot com and I hope you guys enjoy today's episode. All right, Dan. So let's jump straight into it. Tell me how bad is sugar, really. Well Well sugar can create a lot of problems for a lot of people
1:26.7	which is why I sort of got into this niche in the first place. You know realistically
1:32.2	sugar in small amounts for most people is not that big of a problem.
1:36.6	But most of my work with folks is with people who rely on sugar for comfort or for energy or for convenience and it really becomes a
1:47.0	problem because it causes a lot of health problems long term when you abuse
1:50.9	it just like anything. when you
1:56.0	And the average American is eating what like 130 pounds of sugar. Yeah, some ridiculous amount of sugar every year.
1:59.0	It's crazy so so let's get into some of the negative effects and some of the you know the chronic health problems that it can lead to
2:07.3	Okay, it is no surprise and not news to anybody that sugar is one of the driving forces behind obesity and
2:16.8	diabetes and that's really where I got started in this field.
2:22.1	I started as a fitness trainer and a nutrition counselor, and I really
2:27.2	started to notice that sugar was kind of the number one problem that so many people were having.
2:35.0	You know, it causes...
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